Companies that utilize servers with motherboards manufactured by California-based Supermicro have all come out stating that the Bloomberg article was hogwash and that there is no evidence of any compromised hardware or software on the supposedly affected servers. This includes tech giants such as Amazon and Apple who would definitely have a lot to loose if they were trying to cover this up. It’s clear that Bloomberg is full of it and should retract the story since the evidence is clearly not there. Should be interesting to see how this plays out legally since the story sent Supermicro’s shares plummeting. Looks like I won’t be reading anything from Bloomberg anymore.

Secondly, the iPhone Xr has arrived in the hands of tech reviewers and the first reviews are surfacing. Here are some substantial ones by Nilay Patel at The Verge and John Gruber: